6 Travel Dietitian Jobs

There are a lot of reasons to be a Registered Dietitian. You probably went into this field primarily because you have a passion for nutrition, health, and people. Your drive to help people achieve their goals and improve their overall wellness through nutrition is what makes you so good at what you do! But, your impact on the world of health isn’t the only benefit of being an RD.

Many people love that being an RD means you can travel! If you have wanderlust and a drive to help people all over the world with their nutrition concerns, you can find certain travel Registered Dietitian positions that allow you to do just that. This allows you to learn and grow from so many different experiences, whether that be because you’re working for lots of different companies/facilities or because you’re living in lots of different places! 

So, today, I am going to talk about some of the RD jobs that allow you to fulfill your travel bug and fulfill your longing to broaden your horizons to help people all over. Here are some positions you could consider as an RD:

6 Travel Dietitian Jobs

Corporate Wellness Dietitian 

A Corporate Wellness Dietitian works for a company as a whole to promote health and wellness among the employees! Since this Registered Dietitian job is for an entire company, it usually involves lots of travel between the various locations. Of course, the downside is you’ll only travel to the areas where your company has a location and you won’t have a lot of choice over where you go. However, if you like to travel and it’s a big enough company, you’ll have plenty of opportunities for adventure.

As a Corporate Wellness Dietitian, you’ll be responsible for creating nutrition and wellness programs, providing dietary consultations, and conducting workshops and training. The types of companies that hire Corporate Wellness Dietitians are Fortune 500 companies, healthcare organizations, hospitals, big tech companies, financial institutions, consulting firms, manufacturing/industrial companies, and universities. The average salary for a Corporate Wellness Dietitian is between $60,500 - $88,500 a year.  

Traveling Clinical Dietitian 

If you’re a Traveling Clinical Dietitian, you work for a consulting company like Dietitians on Demand. This is where you relocate to different healthcare settings, like long-term care facilities or acute care facilities, to provide care for a few weeks or a few months. You get to move around pretty regularly, but don’t plan to hit popular places like New York, Houston, LA, and other metropolitan communities. Traveling Clinical Dietitians are often dispatched to rural areas where RDs are hard to come by.

As a Traveling Clinical Dietitian, you’ll provide nutrition and food analysis for clients and offer therapeutic counseling for medically high-risk patients. If the idea of working in remote locations off the beaten path is exciting to you, being a Traveling Clinical Dietitian might be for you! The average salary is between $37,400 - $48,500 per year with travel and living expenses paid for as you go from location to location. 

Sports Dietitian 

A Sports Dietitian manages the specific needs of athletes in various sports. Often Sports Dietitians will travel, because the team travels all over and their nutritional needs remain extremely important as they participate in various competitions. You’ll often get to travel to popular destinations. And since that’s where sporting events are held, but you’ll likely not be in one location for a long period of time. Additionally, the travel would be reserved for the sport’s active season.

A Sports Dietitian provides nutrition guidance, individualized counseling and refueling strategies. As well as hydration management, supplement advice, weight management, injury recovery, and more to improve the health and performance of the athletes they work with. A traveling Sports Dietitian will usually earn between $60,500 and $88,500 per year. You can learn more about becoming a Sports Dietitian here!

Research Dietitian

A Research Dietitian is an RD who works in nutrition research, conducting studies, running tests, and managing data. They’ll often have to travel as they collaborate with clinical trials across different locations, conduct experiments in various settings, and present findings to various entities. The field work can take you all over! If you have a specific passion for the science side of nutrition, a Research Dietitian position may be the right path for you to take.

As a Research Dietitian some of your duties would include designing research studies, analyzing nutrition data, performing clinical trials, writing research publications for scientific journals, grant writing, integrating finding into clinic practices, advocating for health policies, and educating the public on new research findings. Most job postings will have Research Dietitians making between $40,300 to $76,200 a year. 

International Aid Organization Dietitian 

As RDs, we’re naturally so in-tune with the needs of the world. Often, our main motivator is helping people and changing the world for the better through nutrition. As an RD for an International Aid Organization like UNICEF or the World Health Organization, you’d address nutrition-related challenges in developing countries. This means, of course, traveling to a lot of these third-world areas and meeting people and figuring out how to meet their needs while enveloped in their beautiful culture. 

In this role, you’d work on mitigating malnutrition, establishing food security, improving micronutrient deficiencies, responding in emergency situations like natural disasters, training local health care workers in proper nutrition, and advocating for policy changes for better health in the area. RDs always make an impact in a big way, but that is especially true with an International Aid Organization Dietitian. The salary of an RD varies a lot based on where you are and what organization you work for. For instance, a government-based entity will likely offer higher pay than a non-profit organization. 

Private Online Dietitian 

For the most travel freedom, having your own online private practice is by far the best choice! No one will tell you where to live or when to move, meaning you can go anywhere for as long as you like whether you just need to move closer to a family member temporarily or want to live abroad and establish roots in a foreign country. When you meet with your clients online, you can truly live just about anywhere as long as there is an internet connection! 

Plus, when work isn’t directly sponsoring your travel, they don’t control what you do on a day-to-day basis either. Whereas with the other roles, your managers may have your schedule so packed, you don’t have any time to explore or enjoy your new destination. As a private online RD, not only do you have the freedom to work where you want but also when you want. It allows for amazing work-life balance while you fulfill multiple passions—helping people achieve their wellness goals AND seeing the world.

Beyond the benefits of working when and where you want, private RDs can also help who they want anywhere in the world and have unlimited income-earning potential. There are no salary caps when you work for yourself! Of all the dietitian job types out there, I feel strongly that the one that gives you the life you deserve is being a private RD. No more feeling undervalued, underpaid, and underappreciated in a 9-5. It’s time to do this thing yourself!

If you want to travel as an RD, open your own online nutrition business! 

I know going out on your own and starting a private nutrition business can feel intimidating, but a Dietitian Business Coach like me can help tailor a business plan and growth strategy that works for you and your dreamy clients. I’ve helped thousands of RDs realize their potential, build the practice of their dreams, and find so much SUCCESS and FULFILLMENT. 

I was in this exact boat years ago. I was in a regular 9-5 RD job but wanted to be able to travel, see the world, and be with my family or loved ones in need at a moment's notice. With lots of hard work, I was able to build a successful private practice (before I started coaching my colleagues to achieve their own private practice dreams) and it has allowed me to live my life so fully traveling, exploring, and enjoying life while helping others at the same time. It’s truly every RD’s dream!

You can find lots more about starting your own nutrition business and growing it into a successful practice on my blog, but if you’re ready to do this now, apply to work with me! And, if you already started your nutrition business but just feel stuck, unable to take it to the next level, I have a program for you, too! No matter where you are in this journey a Dietitian Business Coach is the tool you need to find the career you always hoped for!